British Monachism Or Manners And Customs of the Monks And Nuns of England
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S Particular attention was to be paid to the parents of Monks ; for whom ne- cessaries and food were to be found whenever they came to see their chil- dren ; especially on the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, wheresoever they took refection in the town or house ; and they were to be honourably received on the vigil. 11 It seems that the Monks were in the habit of often going to the visitors ; * and, as if pitying the miseries of the poor, asking abundance of questions of the peace of the nobles, ma...king speeches of the cruelty of knights, and the superfluity of clerks, interrupting their conversation with sighs, as from compassion; and then, when the bell rung, tripping off, after a previous whisper, that if the Abbot 'or Prior should come, the visitors would not forget to say a kind word in their fa- vour. K It seems too that the sons of donors, when unable to injure the Monks by means of law, would burden them with continual visits and hospi- tality; 1 and that, from the heavy weight f C.
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